The City Council brings live music and singing to senior residences for Alzheimer’s Day

The DomusVi center hosted a concert by Estepona composer Ángel Moya and a new session of the music therapy program ‘Sound beautifies you, Mayor’.

Estepona City Council has initiated the program of events organized on the occasion of Alzheimer’s Day, which is celebrated next Saturday, September 21. Specifically, there has been a piano concert by the musician and composer of Estepona Angel Moya in the DomusVi Isdabe Residence, where the elderly have also attended a session of the therapeutic music therapy program called ‘The sound beautifies you, Mayor’, which the City Council carries out in the centers of Estepona and Isdabe and Alzheimer’s Day Center. The professional singer and technician in care for people in a situation of dependency, Ana Fargas, is responsible for teaching the sessions in which she performs popular songs, flamenco, sevillanas, copla or boleros.

This pioneering music therapy project aimed at the elderly for active aging through music, began in October 2023. After the initial phase of the project, for a period of three months, both the management and professionals of the Alzheimer Day Center of Estepona and the DomusVi Isdabe and Virgen del Carmen Residence of Estepona, noted a marked improvement in the overall welfare of its users at the physical, cognitive, emotional, social and behavioral level, agreeing to evaluate very positively the project, which this year has been extended to the Vitalia Residence of Isdabe.

The program of events for Alzheimer’s Day will continue tomorrow Thursday 19 with the celebration of a ‘healthy walk intercentros’ involving the elderly of the residence Isdabe and students of CEIP Isdabe del Mar, with departure at 11.15 am from the Avenida del Norte, 19.

For its part, the Association of Relatives of Alzheimer’s patients will install on 21 several information tables in different parts of the town, which will raise awareness among citizens different aspects of this disease, bringing them closer to the reality experienced by patients and their families.